Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.

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31 Traditionally , language teaching has concentrated only on the three levels of the formal language system — pronunciation , grammar , and vocabulary — and the way in which they function within the sentence , on the assumption that other aspects of communication will follow fairly automatically .
32 Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme .
33 This section has paused long on the views held by some librarians on the nature of their role , and that of their collections , in the educational process because it was felt that such views were not as widely known among educators as perhaps they should be .
34 This remedy may come up after a Belladonna sore throat has gone down on the chest .
35 Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations .
36 That privilege , and the airs and presumption that went with it , are still resented ; and some of the resentment has rubbed off on the poet .
37 I have only come across one women at the Humboldt University who has worked seriously on the Russian Avant-garde .
38 Simon Wigg has lined up on the starting grid in more world championships than most people have changed tyres .
39 The group , with a total of 1,500 customers , has focussed primarily on the financial sector , where it generates 69.8% of turnover .
40 Until recently , public interest in the West has centred largely on the performances of the girls , as it would in any competitive sport .
41 Attention has centred throughout on the releases of radioactive iodine and its subsequent ingestion over a wide area of Britain and Western Europe .
42 The debate concerning the factual consequences of insider dealing has centred mainly on the predictive power of economics .
43 In the end , he has lost out on the grounds of inferior physique .
44 Dr Breeze is an international authority on Roman archaeology and has published extensively on the subject .
45 He has published widely on the theme of science policy and the politics of economic reform in the USSR , and has advised the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and the Committee on Science and Technology about recent developments in the USSR .
46 But the blanket screening has backfired badly on the Department of Defense in Dublin .
47 I rushed him to hospital and the doctor asked how it was done and I said he 'd fallen over on the step .
48 Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there .
49 Van Gelder had n't made any mistakes about her , Talbot thought , except that he 'd missed out on the wide green eyes and a rather bewitching smile .
50 Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators .
51 They 'd talked little on the way back , Delaney desperately trying to find another reason , however unlikely , for Connors not briefing him fully .
52 Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound .
53 When they 'd landed back on the plate , he leaned forward , studying the pattern they 'd formed .
54 He 'd danced here on the same legs that now lay dead beneath him , while Sartori had told him how he planned to take this wretched Dominion , and build in its midst a city that would shame Babylon ; danced for sheer exuberance , knowing his Maestro was a great man , and had it in his power to change the world .
55 I 'd gone out on the boat
56 Well I wondered if he 'd wa he 'd gone out on the Nottingham cos I wondered what would happen to the mascot was he shot the mascot , after the the game ?
57 Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose .
58 This time bomb is ticking away , colleagues , and in about twenty years ' time , we 'll be back to where we were we 'll have a lot of people who 've got small pensions , based on their previous employment with a health authority or a local authority , British Gas or the electricity companies then they 've had to go out on the open market and they will be under-funded and have inadequate pension when they retire .
59 By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca .
60 In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements .
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